This week’s Louis C.K.-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live was, refreshingly, weird as hell. So for a sketch to get cut after dress rehearsal on Saturday, it had to be either godawful or super weird. The sketch above, Space Encounter, is definitely the latter.

Watch as a claw-handed, bushy-browed, asexual alien version of Louie conducts tense negotiations with humans in the distant future. I think that about sums it up. Oh wait, also: Louie’s character can’t help but surround himself with posters of shirtless hunks.

The weird is what makes the funny in this one, unlike the very last sketch about the romanttic speech, which was not only unfunny but gave me a rash of douchechills. And don’t even get me started on the executive with the body of a toddler. That mess is so disturbing, I don’t know where to look when it’s on. Even if I were to turn the tv off, I’d know it’s still there.

hey, guy, here’s the thing: it does. what are we supposed to say? “man that was really refreshing, maybe it’s not so bad!”
it was. even an episode hosted by Louis, while ‘weird,’ still fell almost completely flat.
the Sam Smith performances were really the only things with any soul or substance to them.

Ranks up there with the STRONG TAEK of “all Christians are morons” that you see whenever Uproxx uses 4 people tweeting something to clickbait the pseudo-intellectual atheists so they can show their intellectual superiority to people who agree with them.